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TRANSCRIPT OF AUDIO

From the Cumberland Gap to the Atlantic Ocean, this is Virginia Water Radio for New Year’s week 2019.

MUSIC – ~15 sec

This week, music by Virginia high school students introduces a second annual year-opening look at how water is part of ringing in the New Year. Have a listen for about 35 more seconds.

MUSIC - ~37 sec

You’ve been listening to part of “Renewal,” written and performed in spring 2017 by students at World Community Education Center in Bedford, Va., who were accompanied by members of the Blacksburg, Va.-based group Sweet Chalybeate. In January 2017, Virginia Water Radio first explored how water is used as part of New Year renewals and celebrations. As 2019 dawns, let’s count some more ways.

Shoreline restaurants and resorts from Florida to New England offer water-enhanced dining, dancing, fireworks, and games. City-based business organizations, like Norfolk, Va.’s, Waterside District, host community celebrations. The Potomac Riverboat Company embarks from the Alexandria, Va., city marina for cruises to view fireworks and Washington, D.C., monuments. In a water-related alternative to dropping a ball to mark midnight, the Lake Eire town of Port Clinton, Ohio, marks the countdown by dropping a giant Walleye model. Brazilians traditionally offer flowers to a goddess of the sea, or jump over seven waves for good luck while making wishes for the New Year. And in Germany, the shapes created by dropping molten lead into water are believed to give a hint of one’s future.

Here’s hoping that your 2019 shapes up to be full of realized hopes and possibilities, sustained by plenty of good water.

Thanks to the students at World Community Education Center and to Sweet Chalybeate for permission to use this week’s music, and we close with a few more seconds of “Renewal.”

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SHIP’S BELL

Virginia Water Radio is produced by the Virginia Water Resources Research Center, part of Virginia Tech’s College of Natural Resources and Environment. For more Virginia water sounds, music, or information, visit us online at virginiawaterradio.org, or call the Water Center at (540) 231-5624. Thanks to Stewart Scales for his banjo version of Cripple Creek to open and close this show. In Blacksburg, I’m Alan Raflo, thanking you for listening, and wishing you health, wisdom, and good water.

AUDIO NOTES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

“Renewal,” copyright 2017, was written and performed [in spring 2017] by high school students at World Community Education Center, an independent K-12 school in Bedford, Va., with instrumentals by Anne Elise Thomas and Dan Dunlap; used with permission. More information about the school is available online at http://worldcommunityedu.org/. More information about the group Sweet Chalybeate, which includes Anne Elise and Dan, is available online at http://www.sweetchalybeate.com/. This music was featured was also used in Episode 435, 8-27-18.

Click here if you’d like to hear the full version (1 min./11 sec.) of the “Cripple Creek” arrangement/performance by Stewart Scales that opens and closes this episode. More information about Mr. Scales and the group New Standard, with which Mr. Scales plays, is available online at http://newstandardbluegrass.com.

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It’s not a Walleye, and it’s not dropping to mark midnight on New Year’s Eve as happens in Port Clinton, Ohio, but “Big Mouth Billy Bass” was a winter holiday feature at the Swinging Bridge Restaurant in Paint Bank, Va. (Craig County) on December 22, 2018.

For 2017 – Episode 349, 1/2/17 – Water for a World of New Years, Featuring “New Year’s Water” by Torrin Hallett.For 2018 – Episode 401, 1/1/18 – Diving into 2018 with “Driving Rain” by Chamomile and Whiskey.

FOR VIRGINIA TEACHERS – RELATED STANDARDS OF LEARNING (SOLs) AND OTHER INFORMATION

The episode—the audio, extra information, or sources—may help with the following Virginia Standards of Learning (SOLs).

2013 Music SOLs

SOLs at various grade levels that call for “examining the relationship of music to the other fine arts and other fields of knowledge.”

Welcome to Virginia Water Radio

This site includes audio files featuring sounds and music that relate to Virginia’s waters, from the Cumberland Gap to the Atlantic Ocean. Virginia Water Radio is produced by the Virginia Water Resources Research Center, which is solely responsible for the show's content. Thanks to George Wills of Blacksburg, Va., for designing the Virginia Water Radio logo.